[When the girl steps into view Chang Geng is immediately struck by the resemblance. He had wondered idly what Gu Yun would have looked like as a child....now he had a little idea.
He doesn't immediately recognize the features that resembled his own, so taken he was by observing all the ways she looked like the single most important person in his life.
And then there's another memory, of holding an informational pamphlet in his hands and realizing that...they could have this.
Chang Geng was a practical sort. He preferred to focus on problems that could be solved rather than ones that were impossible.
A child carrying both their bloodlines shouldn't exist. It had taken everything he could just to keep one Gu Yun safe. A blood descendant of both Yuan He Emperor and Emperor Wu...even if he could protect the child what about after? Will they lovingly raise a child only for them to grow up and suffer because of who their parents were?
Besides that, any lingering regret he may have had over the fact that Gu Yun probably would have liked to be a father were easily dispelled because neither of them could have children so there had never been a point in wanting what couldn't be.
But in this place, none of those things were concerns. Stripped of all those things, the only question they had to answer was if they wanted to or not.
And he remembered, sitting at Gu Yun's side as they looked through the pamphlet together, that he wanted to very much.]
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He doesn't immediately recognize the features that resembled his own, so taken he was by observing all the ways she looked like the single most important person in his life.
And then there's another memory, of holding an informational pamphlet in his hands and realizing that...they could have this.
Chang Geng was a practical sort. He preferred to focus on problems that could be solved rather than ones that were impossible.
A child carrying both their bloodlines shouldn't exist. It had taken everything he could just to keep one Gu Yun safe. A blood descendant of both Yuan He Emperor and Emperor Wu...even if he could protect the child what about after? Will they lovingly raise a child only for them to grow up and suffer because of who their parents were?
Besides that, any lingering regret he may have had over the fact that Gu Yun probably would have liked to be a father were easily dispelled because neither of them could have children so there had never been a point in wanting what couldn't be.
But in this place, none of those things were concerns. Stripped of all those things, the only question they had to answer was if they wanted to or not.
And he remembered, sitting at Gu Yun's side as they looked through the pamphlet together, that he wanted to very much.]